Skip to main content
deleted 3 characters in body
Source Link
Daniel Beck Mod
  • 111.4k
  • 1
  • 28
  • 58

From the screenshot, one can see that the font is something ricidulously wide. It's actually one of the fonts explicitly specified in the CSS (and not a generic sans-serif fallback for people that have no fonts), DejaVu Sans Bold, and therefore a legitimate bug.

It specifies the font selection Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif for the bold element in the sidebar. ReproduceVerify using $('.related strong).css('font-family').


If you have DejaVu Sans installed (download here), you can experience this using the following code snippet:

$('.related strong').css('font-family', 'DejaVu Sans')

Enter into your browser's JavaScript console, or prepend javascript: and enter into the address bar.

enter image description here

Note how the links are a different font from the user's screenshot, since I changed only the style of the bold element.


Of course, in the meantime, just get Liberation Sans (e.g. from here), which looks almost like Arial, and enjoy nicely aligned text.

From the screenshot, one can see that the font is something ricidulously wide. It's actually one of the fonts explicitly specified in the CSS (and not a generic sans-serif fallback for people that have no fonts), DejaVu Sans Bold, and therefore a legitimate bug.

It specifies the font selection Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif for the bold element in the sidebar. Reproduce using $('.related strong).css('font-family').


If you have DejaVu Sans installed (download here), you can experience this using the following code snippet:

$('.related strong').css('font-family', 'DejaVu Sans')

Enter into your browser's JavaScript console, or prepend javascript: and enter into the address bar.

enter image description here

Note how the links are a different font from the user's screenshot, since I changed only the style of the bold element.

From the screenshot, one can see that the font is something ricidulously wide. It's actually one of the fonts explicitly specified in the CSS (and not a generic sans-serif fallback for people that have no fonts), DejaVu Sans Bold, and therefore a legitimate bug.

It specifies the font selection Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif for the bold element in the sidebar. Verify using $('.related strong).css('font-family').


If you have DejaVu Sans installed (download here), you can experience this using the following code snippet:

$('.related strong').css('font-family', 'DejaVu Sans')

Enter into your browser's JavaScript console, or prepend javascript: and enter into the address bar.

enter image description here

Note how the links are a different font from the user's screenshot, since I changed only the style of the bold element.


Of course, in the meantime, just get Liberation Sans (e.g. from here), which looks almost like Arial, and enjoy nicely aligned text.

Source Link
Daniel Beck Mod
  • 111.4k
  • 1
  • 28
  • 58

From the screenshot, one can see that the font is something ricidulously wide. It's actually one of the fonts explicitly specified in the CSS (and not a generic sans-serif fallback for people that have no fonts), DejaVu Sans Bold, and therefore a legitimate bug.

It specifies the font selection Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif for the bold element in the sidebar. Reproduce using $('.related strong).css('font-family').


If you have DejaVu Sans installed (download here), you can experience this using the following code snippet:

$('.related strong').css('font-family', 'DejaVu Sans')

Enter into your browser's JavaScript console, or prepend javascript: and enter into the address bar.

enter image description here

Note how the links are a different font from the user's screenshot, since I changed only the style of the bold element.